The 7 victims of Jerusalem terror shooting named; include teen and synagogue sexton - The Times of Israel

The remaining victims killed successful the panic shooting successful Jerusalem’s Neve Ya’akov vicinity connected Friday nighttime were each named connected Saturday night.

The onslaught near 7 radical dead, 2 of whom — Eli and Natali Mizrahi — were identified earlier successful the day. The shooting was followed by different panic onslaught Saturday.

The 3rd unfortunate was named arsenic Rafael Ben Eliyahu, 56.

Ben Eliyahu, a nonmigratory of the area, was survived by his woman and 3 children. He worked for the state-owned Israel Post.

The 4th unfortunate of the shooting onslaught was identified arsenic 14-year-old Asher Natan. There was nary contiguous further accusation astir him.

The 5th unfortunate of the shooting onslaught was named arsenic 68-year-old Shaul Hai.

Hai was a sexton astatine a synagogue successful the neighborhood, but not the 1 wherever the onslaught took place, according to the Kikar Shabbat quality site.

The study said Hai was killed portion heading to a Torah acquisition astatine his synagogue.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said different of the victims was a Ukrainian citizen, who was aboriginal named Irina Korolova.

According to Hebrew media reports, Korolova worked arsenic a caretaker.

“We stock [Israel’s] symptom aft the violent attacks successful Jerusalem. Among the victims is simply a [Ukrainian] woman,” Zelensky wrote connected Twitter.

“Sincere condolences to the victims’ families. The crimes were cynically committed connected the [International] Holocaust Remembrance Day.”

The last unfortunate to beryllium identified was named arsenic 26-year-old Ilya Sosansky.

Earlier, the archetypal victims to beryllium named were Eli and Natali Mizrahi, a couple.

Eli’s father, Shimon, said the brace had gone extracurricular to effort and assistance those who had been shot, and were killed by the violent astatine point-blank range.

Natali was a seasoned worker astatine the Hadassah Mount Scopus hospital, wherever she was brought to aft being changeable connected Friday night. Her decease was declared instantly upon arrival, the infirmary said.

Another 3 radical were wounded successful the onslaught — 1 earnestly and the different 2 modestly. Hadassah Hospital said Saturday that the information of the antheral who was earnestly wounded has improved to moderate.

Eli and Natali Mizrahi were acceptable to beryllium buried Saturday nighttime astatine the Derech Hachaim cemetery adjacent the metropolis of Beit Shemesh, the municipality said.

The ceremonial for Natan, the 14-year-old, was owed to statesman astatine 11 p.m. astatine the Har HaMenuchot Cemetery, and helium volition beryllium buried astatine the Jewish Cemetery connected the Mount of Olives, according to Hebrew-language media reports.

There were nary contiguous details connected the funerals for the 4 different victims.

With 7 killed, the shooting successful Jerusalem was the deadliest panic onslaught since 2011, erstwhile terrorists crossed into Israel from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, sidesplitting 8 Israelis. It was the deadliest Palestinian panic onslaught since 2008, erstwhile a gunman from East Jerusalem killed 8 Israeli students astatine the Mercaz Harav yeshiva successful the capital.

The onslaught was followed by different shooting successful Jerusalem connected Saturday morning, successful which 2 Israelis were earnestly hurt. The assailant, a 13-year-old Palestinian from East Jerusalem, was changeable and wounded earlier being taken into custody.

Friday’s deadly onslaught came pursuing days of unit successful the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Tensions person accrued dramatically since Thursday morning, erstwhile an Israel Defense Forces raid successful the West Bank against a violent compartment near 9 Palestinians dormant — astir of them gunmen and members of the cell, though astatine slightest 1 civilian was besides killed.

The IDF said Thursday’s cognition successful the Jenin exile campy was indispensable to foil imminent onslaught plans by a section Islamic Jihad panic cell. The radical had primed explosives and firearms, according to the IDF.

Hamas praised Friday’s onslaught arsenic a effect to Thursday’s IDF operation, but nary panic radical took work for it.

Thursday overnight saw rocket fire from Palestinian panic groups successful Gaza and Israeli retaliatory aerial strikes, though some sides appeared intent connected avoiding an escalation into a full-scale war.

Tensions were besides precocious successful Jerusalem and the Temple Mount connected Friday, though Muslim prayers proceeded without issue.

AFP contributed to this report.